AI Chat and Clinical Decision Support

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Course Description

One year ago, we released an OT Potential Podcast episode exploring what AI could conceptually mean for clinical decision support.

Fast forward to today—and AI chats have become a regular part of the decision-making process for many healthcare providers. In fact, OpenEvidence now reports that 40% of U.S. physicians use their platform daily.

At OT Potential, we recently launched our own AI chat and learned a great deal in the process.

The world of knowledge translation is changing at an incredible pace. It feels more important than ever to pause and ask: What critical questions should we be asking to harness this technology? What are the strengths of chat-based tools as they currently exist? What are their vulnerabilities? And how can we move forward strategically?

We are incredibly lucky to be joined for this one-hour CEU webinar by Jen Weaver, PhD, OTR/L, a leading voice in knowledge translation within occupational therapy. Together, Jen and I will discuss what these rapid changes mean for you and your OT practice.

Learning Objectives

1. You will recognize the strengths of AI chats as they currently exist, for translating knowledge for OT assessment and treatment.

2. You will be able to identify the current weaknesses of AI chats as they currently exist for translating knowledge for OT assessment and treatment.

Agenda

Intro (5 minutes)

Discussion (40 minutes)

1. How did you become interested in knowledge translation?
2. What work are you doing now?
3. Why has knowledge translation been so hard historically?
4. What barriers do you think AI chats could  help us solve?
5. What are the solutions currently available for the “black box” of AI chat? (Sarah)
6. What are options for navigating speed and quality of AI chat? 
7. What research questions are top of mind for you in regards to AI and knowledge translation? 
8. How do you see the expectations around therapy sessions changing with so much information at clinicians and patient’s finger tips?
9. What possibilities do you see for knowledge translation to patients?

Live Q&A (10 min)

Closing (5 min)

Supporting Research and Journal Articles

• The Use of an Artificial Intelligence Platform OpenEvidence to Augment Clinical Decision-Making for Primary Care Physicians
• Analyzing AI Language Models on Pulmonary Nodule Patient Education: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and OpenEvidence
• Toward a responsible future: recommendations for AI-enabled clinical decision support

Target Audience/Educational Level

Our target audience is occupational therapy practitioners who are looking to learn about AI Chat and Clinical Decision Support. The educational level is introductory.

Financial and Non-financial Disclosures

It is the policy of OT Potential to disclose any financial and non-financial interest the provider or instructor may have in a product or service mentioned during an activity. This is to ensure that the audience is made aware of any bias of the speaker.

We here at OT Potential have no financial stake in this topic.

Speakers

Jen Weaver, PhD, OTR/L

Jen Weaver started her journey in healthcare as an Occupational Therapist. She attended the University of Southern California and was motivated to implement evidence-based practice (EBP) and inspired to “do research”. However, right away it was recognized to be easier said than done.

Her first stop as an Occupational Therapist was in an inpatient rehabilitation facility in Southern California. She was supported by her colleagues to advance her education and pursue research endeavors. Her journey has brought her across the country with opportunities to experience practice in Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. She now attends The George Washington University’s PhD program in Translational Health Sciences. It was recognizing the gaps in practice that led her to advance her education to better understand how we can provide evidence-based care and keep the patient at the forefront.

She is interested in reducing the time it takes research to enter practice and support clinicians by researching what matters for practicing clinicians.

Sarah Lyon, OTR/L

Sarah’s passion is helping fellow OT practitioners translate evidence into daily practice. Sarah earned her BA in religion from St. Olaf College, then earned her master’s degree in occupational therapy from New York University in 2011.

Since then, she’s worked in numerous facilities, including a critical access hospital, an acute trauma hospital, and a state inpatient psychiatric hospital. Sarah is the founder/owner of OT Potential. Read more about OT Potential here.

This course was designed to meet your continuing education requirements

We designed the courses in the Club to meet the requirements for “online” and “independent/self-study” courses. To verify the requirements from your specific state (within the US), check out our post, OT Continuing Education Requirements. If you are outside of the United States and have questions, please contact us.

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